Danielle Macleod’s photography draws on traditional Hebridean culture and her upbringing in the Scottish Islands. Guardians is an ongoing series which questions the nature of belief as a space between reality and imagination. Each mask, constructed mostly from natural and found materials, manifests spirituality outside the bounds of organised religion. The making of each mask begins as a re-moulding of a belief. As soon as they are worn, an entity is called into existence that has movement and life. Old gods have been replaced by new ones; not ones of authority, but of inspiration.
